- J. K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Rowling BA (Exon.) OBE is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling. Rowling is the author of the "Harry Potter" fantasy series, which has gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 325 million copies worldwide. In 2007, "The Sunday Times Rich List" estimated her fortune at £545 million (about US$1 billion), …
- Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is an English film, television and stage actor. He is best known for playing school-aged wizard Harry Potter in each of the first five films based on the best-selling "Harry Potter" book series, and will also appear in the final two films of that series.
- Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress who rose to fame playing the role of Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" film series.
- Rupert Grint
Rupert Alexander Grint (born August 24, 1988) is an English actor best known for playing Ron Weasley in the "Harry Potter" films.
- John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in history, including those for "Jaws", "Star Wars", "Superman", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List", "Hook", "Memoirs of a Geisha", and "Harry Potter".
- David Yates
David Yates is an English film and television director. He has worked extensively in British television, mainly for the BBC, helming high-profile drama projects such as "When I Was a Girl" (1991), "The Sins" (2000), "The Way We Live Now" (2001), Paul Abbott's "State of Play" (2003), "The Young Visiters" (2003), "Sex Traffic" (2004) and Richard Curtis's "The Girl in the Café" (2005).
- Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (pronounced /ref fanz/; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor. He has appeared in films such as Schindler's List, Quiz Show, The English Patient, Oscar and Lucinda, Red Dragon, The Constant Gardener, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and the Harry Potter films. Most recently he appeared in The Reader.
- Tom Felton
Thomas Andrew Felton (born September 22, 1987) is an English actor in films, television, radio, and video games. He is best known for playing the role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series.
- Michael Gambon
Sir Michael John Gambon, KBE (born October 19, 1940), is an acclaimed Irish-British actor who has worked in television, film and theatre.
- Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television personality. The former comedy collaborator of Hugh Laurie, his renowned intellect has most recently led to the success of television panel game "QI", of which he is host.
- Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is a British actor. Raised in Liverpool and later in London, he fell accidentally into acting during his first year at university, and went on to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Initially known as a TV actor in the UK, his biggest international film break was being selected to portray the villain, Colonel William Tavington, opposite Mel Gibson in the Revolutionary War epic "The Patriot" (2000).
- Katie Leung
Katie Liu Leung (born August 8, 1987) is a Scottish actress, perhaps best known for playing Cho Chang, Harry Potter's love interest in the film versions of the J. K. Rowling novels "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".
- Richard Harris
Sir Richard St. John Harris was an Irish actor, singer and songwriter. He was featured on stage and in many films, and was perhaps best known for the film role of King Arthur in "Camelot" (1967) and for the portrayal of Albus Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone" (2001) and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (2002), his last film. He also played a British aristocrat and prisoner in "A Man Called Horse" (1970).
- Evanna Lynch
Evanna Meghan Lynch (born 16 August 1991) is an Irish actress, best known for playing Luna Lovegood in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".
- Jim Dale
Jim Dale MBE (born James Smith on August 15, 1935) is an English actor, singer, and songwriter who is best known for his roles in the "Carry On" films and as the narrator of the Harry Potter audiobook series in the United States. He was born in Rothwell, Northamptonshire.
- Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor. He is known for his film performances in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "28 Days Later...",Braveheart, and "The General".
- Warwick Davis
Warwick Ashley Davis (born February 3, 1970) is an English actor. He is noted for having dwarfism, standing only tall. Davis is probably best known as the title character in "Willow", Wicket W. Warrick in "Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi", Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies, the title character in "Leprechaun" and its sequels and as Marvin the Paranoid Android in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
- Matthew Lewis
Matthew David Lewis (born 27 June 1989) is an English actor, known for playing Neville Longbottom in the "Harry Potter" films.
- Devon Murray
Devon Michael Murray (born October 28, 1988) is an Irish actor known for playing Seamus Finnigan the "Harry Potter" films. Before "Harry Potter", Murray had played Christy in "This is My Father", Malachy in "Angela's Ashes", and Geoffery in "Yesterday's Children". He began work on the fifth "Harry Potter" film in February 2006. Murray was born in County Kildare, Ireland, the only child of Michael and Fidelma Murray.
- David Heyman
David Heyman is a British film producer born in London, England in 1961. He first worked in the film industry as a production assistant, before producing his first film, "Juice", in 1992, followed by the cult "stoner" film "The Stoned Age" (1994). He enjoyed some success as an executive in America, before returning to London to found his own production company, Heyday Films, in 1997. Heyman has since produced a number of notable films, …
- Mary Grandpré
Mary GrandPré is an American illustrator, best known for her illustrations in the US version of the "Harry Potter" books, published by Scholastic. She resides in Sarasota, Florida with her family.
- Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw, CBE (Hon) (born 10 July, 1955 or 1958) is a leading Irish actress who regularly appears in London theatre, although to international audiences she is probably most familiar for her minor role in the "Harry Potter" films. She has been regarded as one of the finest classical actresses of her generation. Shaw was awarded an honorary CBE in 2001.
- Jamie Waylett
Jamie Waylett (born July 21, 1989) is an English actor known for his portrayal of Vincent Crabbe, the right-hand man to Draco Malfoy in all five of the Harry Potter films. He has yet to star in any other production. Waylett was born in London. He attended Emmanuel Primary School, London. When he was sitting in class at Emmanuel, a casting agent arrived to take pictures for the Harry Potter films.
- Chris Rankin
Christopher William Rankin (born November 8, 1983) is an actor who now resides in the UK. He is known for playing Percy Weasley in the "Harry Potter" films. Rankin was born in New Zealand. He lived in Rothesay Bay, New Zealand until he was six. Then he and his parents moved to Norfolk, UK, where he still lives. He attended Shipdham Primary School, Northgate High School, and Dereham Sixth Form College. His dreams came true when he won the role of Percy Weasley.
- Stanislav Ianevski
Stanislav Ianevski (born May 16, 1985) is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Ianevski was born in Bulgaria and has also lived in Israel and England, where he was known for his athletic skills. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianveski had no particular acting aspirations and was not a drama student. He had only auditioned for "Potter" after being spotted by Fiona Weir, …
- Steve Kloves
Steven Kloves (born March 18, 1960) is an American screenwriter mainly renowned for his adaptations of novels, especially for the "Harry Potter" film series and for "Wonder Boys", whose screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. He has also directed two movies. Kloves, born in Austin, Texas in 1960, grew up in Sunnyvale, California where he attended Fremont High School.
- David Bradley
David Bradley (born April 17, 1942) is an English character actor. He has recently become known for playing the caretaker of Hogwarts, Argus Filch, in the hugely popular "Harry Potter" series of films. Bradley was born in York, England. He became an actor in 1971, first appearing on television that year in the successful comedy "Nearest and Dearest" playing a police officer.
- Mark Williams
Mark Williams (born 1959) is an English actor, comedian, scriptwriter and presenter. He is known as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show, "The Fast Show" as well as for the role of Arthur Weasley in the "Harry Potter" films.
- Rufus Beck
Rufus Beck (born July 23, 1957) is a German theater, film, and voice actor. Besides his work on stage, on film, and on television, Beck is also a well known reader of audiobooks. He is especially famous as the reader of the German translations of the Harry Potter series. He is also well known for his role in the comedy "Der bewegte Mann". He is also the father of actor Jonathan Beck.
- Harry Melling
Henry Arthur David Melling (born on 13 March 1989) is an English actor. He plays Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films. He attended Mill Hill School. He is the grandson of Patrick Troughton, who starred as the Second Doctor in the science fiction series "Doctor Who" from 1966 to 1969. He is also the first cousin of cricketer Jim Troughton and actor Sam Troughton.
- Sean Biggerstaff
Sean Biggerstaff (born 15 March 1983) is a Scottish actor best known for appearing in the Harry Potter films. Born in Glasgow to a fireman and a community education worker, Biggerstaff grew up in Maryhill. He joined Maryhill Youth Theatre at age seven, and was a member for five years. Biggerstaff later acted with the Scottish Youth Theatre for six years. When he was ten, Biggerstaff got his first professional role in "Macbeth" (as the son of MacDuff), …
- Stuart Craig
Norman Stuart Craig OBE (born April 14, 1942) is a noted British production designer. He has been nominated for an Academy Award eight times, and has won three times: in 1983 for "Gandhi", in 1989 for "Dangerous Liaisons", and in 1996 for "The English Patient". He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan, on all of the "Harry Potter" films to date.
- Michael Goldenberg
Michael Goldenberg (born 1965) is an American playwright and more recently a Hollywood screenwriter and director. Goldenberg was the co-screenwriter for the film adaptation of "Contact" and co-adapted the 2003 live-action version of "Peter Pan" with director P.J. Hogan. He is also the co-screenwriter for Spike Jonze's upcoming Warner Bros.
- Nicolas Flamel
Nicolas Flamel was a successful scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a reputation as an alchemist that has overshadowed his historical reality. Flamel was the attributed author of an alchemical book, published in Paris in 1612 as "Livre des figures hiéroglypiques" and in London in 1624 as "Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures".
- Christian Coulson
Christian Coulson is an English actor perhaps most famous for his film appearance as Tom Marvolo Riddle—the teenage Lord Voldemort—in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", the second installment of the Harry Potter film franchise.
- Joshua Herdman
Joshua Mintone Herdman (September 9, 1987) is an English actor known for his roles in the Harry Potter films as Gregory Goyle. He has starred in all five existing movies so far. He started acting when he was 7 years old; his father, Martin, is an actor and managed to get his son an agent. He also appeared in one episode of The Crust and one episode of "The Bill". Joshua, or Josh as he is sometimes called, is 6'4 with hazel eyes and has a muscular build, …
- Michael Gerber
Michael Gerber (born June 14, 1969) is the author of the Barry Trotter series, million-selling parodies of the Harry Potter books. More recently, he has written "Freshman", the first in a four book series which follows a student's progress through the mythical, Ivy/Oxbridge-inflected Stutts University. In writing these satirical novels, Gerber draws upon his experiences as a student at Yale University, …
- John Granger
John Granger is a reader in the Greek Orthodox Church, and the author of several books analysing J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. Granger was born in Corning, New York and grew up in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. He attended prep school at Philips Exeter Academy and holds an honors degrees from the University of Chicago, where he studied classical languages and literature. He is currently a teacher of English, Latin and journalism at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, …
- Jeff Rawle
Jeff Rawle (born 1951 in Birmingham, England) is a British actor. His family moved to Sheffield and it was at High Storrs Grammar school that he first became interested in drama when he appeared in school plays. He worked at Sheffield playhouse before going to LAMDA. He then landed his first major role in a TV series as Billy in the TV version of Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's "Billy Liar". He has played Amos Diggory in the "Harry Potter" films, …
- Eva Ibbotson
Eva Ibbotson is a British novelist specializing in juvenile fiction. She has written numerous books including "The Secret of Platform 13", "Journey to the River Sea", "Which Witch?", "Island of the Aunts", and "Dial-a-Ghost". She has previously been nominated for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Book Awards. The books are imaginative and humorous, and most of them feature magical creatures and places, …